Reviews for ZOLOFT129 ratings: (taken because of OCD)Edit Filter | Clear FilterCompare ZOLOFT with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZOLOFT | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Anxiety, Depression, OCD | Lowered libido | No longer cry at the drop of the hat or spiral into anxiety. Feel amazing. Highly recommend. Have been struggling since I was in 2nd grade and this is the first time I feel like oh my gosh is this how other people feel all the time!? | F | 34 | 7 months 25 1X day | 3/6/2023 | 1 | OCD, Binge Eating | I am editing previous rating I did....see below. I had been on this med for 5 years, not 5 days. | Coming off of this med gave me horrible withdrawal sickness. Vomiting, chills, headaches, muscle aches all lasting more than a week after I stopped taking med. | F | 56 | 5 years 50 MG 1X day | 8/15/2022 | 1 | OCD, Binge Eating | I didnt notice many side effefts while i was taking it. A bit sleepy. | I went off of Zoloft on Thursday and by Friday morning i was so sick from the withdrawals. I was severely nauseous, chills, headache, muscle pain, gritting my teeth. It is now Sunday and I am just as ill. This is day 3 off the med. I have since read that it is highly recommended to taper off this med and I didnt know this. Please be careful! | F | 56 | 5 days 50 MG 1X day | 8/7/2022 | 3 | Anxiety/OCD | Extreme nausea to the extent that I find myself throwing up at some point most days. The first month taking it I also noticed I had some trouble sleeping, but this side effect did not last. | Despite constantly feeling nauseous after taking Zoloft, it has greatly improved my anxiety and ocd symptoms. It takes time for it to start working though, so if you can suffer through the first couple months it really does tend to have a positive impact on symptoms!! | F | 21 | 2 years 150 1X day | 11/8/2020 | 4 | Panic/ocd/phobia/social anxiety/GAD | Very very tired and only stomach upset if I don't eat | I been on this med since I was 8 recently it was raised from 100 to 125 and I can sleep all day long we don't know yet if it's because the med or something else | F | 17 | 9 years 125 | 5/12/2020 | 3 | PTSD OCD and General Anxiety | None. | It's a very weak drug. I only weigh 120 lbs and I'm taking 200 mg and I sometimes feel like I'm not taking it. I'm not taking it for depression, I'm taking it for rage, paranoia and dissassociation in conjunction with other things. I'd murder people with no remorse or severely hurt someone and be in jail, if I weren't on drugs because I honestly hate human beings from the bottom of my heart, even though I don't show it.. And that's why everyone made me take this crap. It's helped me live more of a normal life and not feel like I'm going to snap as much. | M | 25 | 10 months 200 MG 1X day | 9/7/2017 | 5 | Anxiety & OCD | First 4-6 weeks: Mild jaw clenching, harder to fall asleep. Dissipated after 4-6 weeks with no side effects. | This has been a life saver for me. In fact, it always works so well for me that I go off of it after 6-9 months because I feel so normal. I tend to get anxiety and OCD if going through a big stressor in life or in the winter time due to seasonal affective disorder. | F | 42 | 16 years 50mg 1X day | 5/22/2017 | 3 | OCD symptoms | Massive weight gain, hyped up | My son has OCD and we tried this medication to help him. He is very active and yet in 2 months time he gained a massive amount of weight. It only helped his symptoms slightly so we are going to try something else. | M | 6 | 2 months 75 mg | 4/30/2017 | 5 | Anxiety paranoia ocd | Anxiety first few weeks fatigue | Overall pretty good | M | 24 | 1 years 50MG | 7/24/2016 | 1 | ocd | Nausea acid zombie state dizziness | Awful med | F | 56 | 5 days 150mg | 6/22/2016 | 5 | ocd, manic severe depression | Very very alert, hyped up, energetic, low appetite,lost waight mabie 20 lbs after 2 months of use and haven't lost any more sence. have trouble sleeping, once I do fall a sleep, it's a hard sleep* for 5 hrs and then im up. wide eyed and bushy tailed like someone injected me withan extra shot of expresso. Sex levels come and go some days I want nothing to do with hugs or to much physical attention, other times I feel like I can't get enough (scratch u can't itch) need to be sure ur birth control works with this pill becouse it'll cause you to become more fertal (DR's have use this on my father's girlfriend to help her consive a child after yrs of trying and 6 miscarriages* her first birth was with twins) but do NOT take while pregnant my daughter had a second thumb on her left hand (I stop Zoloft at 4 mos with her) luckly there was no bone, so easily removed/ stopped Zoloft for pregnancys ever sence. I just make sure I wake up a specific time eat oatmeal or something quick before taking Zoloft,(or get nauseous and sick*after I threw up once I was good to go like 100% ready to go to work*Construction worker*) take it same time everyday and life's "antidepressed" For warning my cuzin takes same amount but totally opisit affects. It works for her as well, she's been taking it for a good few years now but gained waight, and it makes her sleepy so she takes it at night.(anxiety/depression) My boyfriend tho said it made him emotionless like a numb zombie. I | Not for everyone better to start at 25 for 7 days and only go up 25mgs at a time a jump from 50-100 is sometimes a lil to much. Very strong pill. U don't want to take a large amount of this. | F | 24 | 5 years 150mg | 5/15/2016 | 5 | depression anxiety OCD tendencys | At first I had some mild effects but they seemed to taper off. No weight gain or sexual problems. Slight nausea sometimes if I take it on an empty stomach. | This drug is not for everyone, but it works well for me. My symptoms are decreased and I am able to function much more normally. I was a wreck before I started seeing a therapist. She recommended that I try the Zoloft after meeting with me for a few months. It helped a lot. Shortly after this, I was diagnosed with Crohns disease. So that was what may have triggered my symptoms. Anyway, through it all the Zoloft helped me manage the stress. I recommend seeing a mental health professional (not just family DR) before starting Zoloft though. Now I get it from my PCM but Im glad I saw a therapist while I was starting with it. | F | 39 | 7 years 100 1X day | 4/29/2016 | 1 | Anxiety/OCD | horrendous night sweats (I had to wash my bedsheets every day), headaches, severe anxiety, feeling of dread. And whenever I increased my dose (+25mg) I had a constant headache/stomach ache for at least a week | This medicine did nothing for me unfortunately. It works wonders on my mum, so I gave it a shot but sadly it gave me more anxiety/depression like symptoms. I would wake up in a pile of sweat every single morning and woke up and went to bed with headaches. There were no positive side effects for me and getting off of it was really rough - withdrawal symptoms were the same as the side effects plus brain zaps. Not the drug for me! | F | 24 | 3 months 125 1X day | 2/18/2016 | 5 | OCD | Tiredness Increased appetite | F | 23 | 3 years 50mg | 12/16/2015 | 3 | Anxiety, OCD, depression | Brain fog, headache, blurred vision, migraines, loss of appetite, overheating, diarrhea, cramps | It helps with the anxiety, but I am so tired and foggy, even with a low dose...I also have trouble concentrating. | F | 13 | 4 months 37.5 1X day | 10/3/2015 | 3 | PTSD anxiety OCD depression | No appetite I went 3 days without eating and didn't realise until my partner was ramming a sandwich down me, now just a smaller appetite and still forget to eat. Blurred vision, diarrhoea, nausea, heart burn, hyper/wired can stay awake for 48hrs so have to take a sedative to sleep, insomnia, brain zaps/waves like vertigo but whilst sitting, speech problems and speech block, memory loss, suicidal thoughts with one attempt, dry mouth, involuntary movements like jerking. Reading through this yes the side effects have been awful and pretty persistent but I'll now explain below... | ... Basically I anise these tablets no end and take up to 800-1000mg hence all the side effects, but because I abused them so heavily at the start a normal dose now gives me withdrawal which gives all the above side effects. So they work just don't abuse them or get blinding drunk as trying to kill yourself happens. | F | 22 | 2 months 100mg | 1/13/2015 | 4 | MAJOR anxiety/panic/ocd/depression | Brain fog, derealization/depersonalization, lack of concentration, hard time remembering things | I had MAJOR panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, intrusive thoughts, general anxiety. Zoloft is helping. No weight gain, no extreme side effects. I just dont like the brain fog and detached feeling. | F | 16 | 3 months 25 MG | 1/7/2015 | 4 | Depression, GAD, OCD | Night sweats | I don't really remember my initial reactions to Zoloft but wanted to share my long term experience. Zoloft has been good for me. I did not gain weight and have been able to have orgasms. Unlike Paxil, which I took in the more distant past, Zoloft did not make me chronically constipated. I have continued to have breakthrough episodes of depression/anxiety (even after adding Wellbutrin a couple of years ago), but the length is shortened and the bottom not nearly as deep. Adding Wellbutrin was also good - reduced the damaging sense of existential loneliness that often lurked in the background of my mind. The only long term side effect that I am aware of is sweating at night. Because of my continued depressive episodes, a Psychiatrist is changing me to Effexor. It inhibits norepinephrine as well as seratonin (I'm also continuing Wellbutrin). | F | 40 | 6 years 100mg 2X day | 11/25/2014 | 4 | Major Depression/OCD/Major Anxiety | Dizziness, dry mouth, mild sour stomach(no vomitting), slight insomnia, weight loss, mild apathy, decreased sex drive, and fatigue. | I'm a nurse who works on nightshift. I've always had bouts of depression, I have a history of major anxiety to the point of it being physically painful, and developed OCD over time. When I switched to nights I became a complete mess. I could not even lift my head up because of how depressed I felt, and it scared me. I asked my PNP to give me zoloft, after thinking long and hard. I was extremely skeptical and afraid to take it, terrified to say the least, because I had a horrible reaction to a few other anti-Ds. After having it on my nightstand for about a week, I finally started taking the first weeks 25mg and then upped it to 50mg the following week, which I am on now. I must say that I noticed a dramatic difference- I'm always tired because of night shift, but I feel NO depression. I find myself able to fully concentrate, despite the slight dizziness and brainfog it gives. I stated I feel apathy, but I believe its because I feel apathy towards things that used to make me sad and depressed, and anxious. As far as my OCD, I have less trouble dealing with my intrusive thoughts and am not a nervous wreck following my episodes. Even though I feel slightly numbed out, I notice I'm more relaxed than I have ever been-the brainfog does not interefere with my patient care and safety. I have not had to take as much lorazepam 0.5mg PRN like before, that is an improvement. Honestly, I get nervous about feeling good on this medication and almost believe too-good-to-be-true, but I t | F | 24 | 14 days 50 1X day | 11/12/2014 | 4 | Depression,anxiety,PTSD, OCD,bipola | Just started taking this. I have improved at 100mg but I'm being bumped to 200mg for OCD and anxiety. I have a little paranoia but feel better about life and see and think of life on a daily basis in a more rational way. My mood has evened out in not as on edge as before. I'm hoping the higher dose will work and I can stop taking my anxiety meds. | F | 34 | 10 days 100mg | 6/9/2014 |
ZOLOFT (SERTRALINE HYDROCHLORIDE): Sertraline is used to treat depression, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder (social phobia), and a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (premenstrual dysphoric disorder). This medication may improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level and may help restore your interest in daily living. It may decrease fear, anxiety, unwanted thoughts, and the number of panic attacks. It may also reduce the urge to perform repeated tasks (compulsions such as hand-washing, counting, and checking) that interfere with daily living. Sertraline is known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). It works by helping to restore the balance of a certain natural substance (serotonin) in the brain. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA) FDA Approval Date: 1991-12-30